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Unpaid internships have long been a fixture of Hollywood, as much a part of show business as lavish Oscar parties, expense account lunches and prima donna actors. In exchange for a foot in the industry's exceedingly narrow door, these uncompensated workers routinely perform a variety of menial tasks: fetching lattes, reading scripts and even topping off their bosses' gas tanks. But in recent years, the legality of this practice has been under assault. Now, a lawsuit challenging unpaid internship programs — one that led to a wave of similar cases and may have pushed some companies to begin paying these minions — has been dealt a major blow. On Thursday, the U.S. 2nd...

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